Conferenza di Enzo Restagno

On September 19, at 6 PM, in Sala Bianchi, Belluno, the Belluno Cultural Circle is pleased and honored to host Prof. Enzo Restagno who, with his renowned expertise, will reveal to us the secret and magic of "Maurice Ravel's Piano."

The main purpose of the conference is to introduce the concert by Axel Trolese, scheduled for September 24 at Palazzo Crepadona, but it is primarily an opportunity to listen to "one of the leading specialists at the international level," a scholar and writer, as well as a consultant and artistic director for major Italian musical institutions.

With such events, the Belluno Cultural Circle promotes and spreads the pleasure of listening to classical music accompanied by a rigorous historical and philological guide on composers and compositions, to grasp all those contents that characterize the eternal masterpieces.

Entry is free, subject to availability.

For information, program notes, and all concerts of the second part of the 2025 season, visit the website belcircolo.org.

Enzo Restagno studied music and philosophy in Turin and Vienna. He taught Music History at the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory in Turin for 37 years.

He has worked as a music critic for newspapers and magazines including “Stampa sera,” “La Repubblica,” “Le Monde de la Musique,” “Die Zeit,” “L’Espresso.”

He has produced radio and television broadcasts for RAI, Radio France, Westdeutsche Rundfunk, BBC.

He has held lectures and masterclasses for musical institutions and universities in Europe, the USA, and Asia. In his scholarly activity, he has focused particularly on modern and contemporary music, of which he is considered one of the most eminent specialists internationally.

The books he has dedicated to Luigi Nono, Luciano Berio, Hans Werner Henze, Elliott Carter, Ligeti, Xenakis, Petrassi, Donatoni, Sofia Gubaidulina, Alfred Schnittke, Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen, Peter Maxwell Davies, Arvo Pärt have often been translated into various languages.

As a recognition of this expertise, the Ricordi Editions in Milan appointed him as artistic consultant for contemporary music editions.

Alongside his work as an educator and scholar, Enzo Restagno has nurtured a special passion for musical organization, considering it one of the highest and most extraordinary tools for social and cultural promotion.

Over the past twenty-five years, he has served as consultant and artistic director of the “Arturo Toscanini” Symphony Orchestra of Emilia Romagna, the international piano festival “Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli” in Bergamo and Brescia, the RAI Orchestra of Turin, and since 1986 the festival “Torino Settembre Musica” which, over twenty years, he transformed into one of the largest international events, culminating in 2007 with the creation of MiTo SettembreMusica, which he directed until 2015.

This festival regards the cities of Turin and Milan, with their theaters, their halls, their musical traditions, and their audiences, as a sort of immense musical building in which, for three weeks, the most renowned artists, the most promising young talents, and musical cultures of all times and places come together to create a grand showcase of cultural anthropology in the name of music.